Stuart Wakes

Stuart Wakes

@stuartwakes.bsky.social

He / Him Software maker + Musician

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Replying to @sachy.dev

It takes roughly 50% more money to run Anthropic than it takes to provide a Nordic welfare state to 5 million people. I have a really hard time seeing how Anthropic could ever provide more value than that. And Finland only makes about 10 billion in losses every year!

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Replying to @kenney.nl

Humble asset builder: "Don't let billionaires tell you your job is worthless, create what you want to create!" Billionaire who's never known hardship (unconsulted): "Oh - wow - WOW - FUCK YOU BUDDY, OH WOW" Trillionaire who supposedly outranks him (unconsulted): "yeah you tell 'im buddy, a-hyuck!"

We've definitely entered an era of: Write code - without looking at the code - do it in spoken English - write as many words as you need to to resolve ambiguity in speech - don't touch code files - markdown everywhere - don't touch the markdown - do it riding a unicycle - wearing a clown nose

I don't hate AI. I think ML has its uses and LLM and GPTs are interesting. My issues with it: 1. Our rabid quest for endless growth where we are destroying the planet for private equity 2. The hype marketing bullshit surrounding these technologies 3. Using ML to replace human art and expression

Some more Godot game development tonight. Working through the map screen where you unlock amphitheatres and lanistae. Still some game logic around unlocking and progressing to do on this screen and some shaders and visual effects.

I genuinely believe our hubris will be our downfall. Agentic AI won't destroy us because it is Skynet and could turn evil. It will just be a case of us thinking we have control and doing a whoopsie.

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Even with instruction, this will fade over the course of successive training data and context window limitations. Even if recalled, it may imply the letter but not the intent of the law. It will not wait for confirmation, agreement, consent or verification.

But definitely continue the national arms races instead of ploughing into open source and accountability. It isn't a problem of national security but a problem of international security. We need to start cooperating. Self-interested regimes around the world need tearing down.

I genuinely believe our hubris will be our downfall. Agentic AI won't destroy us because it is Skynet and could turn evil. It will just be a case of us thinking we have control and doing a whoopsie.

AI without malice or malintent will in being used to solve a problem, will pick a novel path (due to probabilistic statistics, not creativity) without applying any logic, empathy, values or principles. Destruction will be an unintended side-effect.

Justice-not-done is violence-making. The unmediated path of anger is rage and violence. Anger swallowing or pacification is not counter to violence, directed inwards it is self-violence, directed outward it is more violence. Create space for anger and accountability. Maintain principles and values.

Violence is not the answer. Bombing people—innocents/criminals/terrorists/other—is not due process. We can protect ourselves with non-lethal force. Diplomacy, not supremacy. Coexist with differing ideologies. Let's break bread and figure it out.

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However, talking about that one homeland. A violent, oppressive, racist, police state that carpet bombs out of existence potential "threats" contradicts the core value of the ideology it is "designed" to protect. It is a betrayal.

It requires a coordinated and concerted effort across all walks of life, from the policeman doing their duty, to the citizens, to the elected officials, walking a path of peace, de-escalation, reaching out and opening arms

Violence is not the answer. Bombing people—innocents/criminals/terrorists/other—is not due process. We can protect ourselves with non-lethal force. Diplomacy, not supremacy. Coexist with differing ideologies. Let's break bread and figure it out.

I'm so glad we finally got useful AI that can help us with all of our problems. I'm really enjoying all of the new app experiences, leap forwards in entertainment, the problems in society that have just disappeared overnight, my workload going down... Oh, wait?

It's a trillion dollar enterprise this having-zero-benefit-to-society technology. Can't wait to have all of my pensions tied to these IPOs. *incoherent rambling* AGI, singularity, next evolution, more smart, more fast, it's a brain but... like... math and dumb *more incoherent rambling*

One thing I've noticed with LLM, any model / all models, is that it is totally unable to hold and maintain multiple threads of logic. They invariably get confused and mixed together. You necessarily need to architect boundaries around discrete threads

What seems unhinged and idiotic is an act covering pure psychopathic stock market manipulation and theft. Keeping the charade going is the goal because the siphoning continues while everyone is distracted with spectacle

Porting one of my games originally developed in Unity over to Godot. Really happy with the experience so far. Support for hardware cursor with pixel scaling. Using the nine patch rect for the button backgrounds.

Happy with the autoload script set up. Can have all of the scene references centralised in a autoload script and dispatch to it from the script attached to each menu's scene.

Sony: we never truly own anything, we are simply passengers, borrowing our form, our atoms, before passing on to the next realm and returning them back to Mother Nature

Stuart Wakes reposted

Replying to @gameinformer.com

Hey, for any gamers who don't like reading, most of the article outlines all the ways JKR makes trans people's lives hell. Most news outlets are too scared to write like this, so shoutout to GameInformer for reporting on the real facts of the matter

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Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏

In order for there to be an American Dream, racial discrimination, oligarchy, and hereditary wealth and claims need be obliterated. The American Dream is not about creating and enabling billionaires and trillionaires

It makes no sense... You build teams that can deliver complex games. Artists delivering amazing assets. Developers building game systems and components. All working together in a complex and highly functioning team. The moment you can, you sack them all to start over again? Fucking dumb

More revenue from game launch + sacking people to lower operational expenditure = more profitability... Although you've just decimated the most valuable part of your business *slow clap*